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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You just don't want low grades.  It's not worth the trade off so be careful.  Schools say they value rigor over GPA but they kinda don't.  Excessive rigor at the expense of grades is a very bad idea.  Obviously you need decent rigor.[/quote]

take care but don't take easy classes just to get As if the student is competent and interested in the more challenging material.  Thing is, they actually will go off and enroll in college classes and will be at a disadvantage if they have not learned some of the material in high school.[/quote]

You really want to get As or mostly As with a baseline of decent rigor. If the kid can get As with intense rigor and is happy; fine. If not ease up on the rigor. Very high rigor and all Bs or even a C is a sub optimal outcome [/quote]

I disagree if they are easy As.  Easy As indicate a missed opportunity to me to have leaned higher level material.[/quote]

I am saying go for as much rigor as you want but make sure grades are high.  If you go ultra high rigor but get all Bs, that is not a good look for college. You could say, ok, well who cares about college, it's all about learning.  Fine.  But then your kid may end up at a LESS RIGOROUS college than he or she otherwise could get into, because the transcript is messed up, versus other kids who have very high GPA because they picked a course load that was approrpriately rigorous. [/quote]

Rigor in college depends on the student, not on the school.  It is not the college's responsibility to push - the student has to pull.  That is the difference between college and high school.  College absolutely should challenge preconceived notions, underbaked convictions, childish ideas about 'society,' and all of those good things, but no one is going to check that a student is not bored with the classes they chose.[/quote]

Whatever. Bottom line- if you want your kid to attend a selective college, don’t overload him with AP classes such that he can’t get high grades in them. If you want to screw up his transcript, let him bite off more than he can chew. [/quote]

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